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Battle Beyond the Sun

directed by Thomas Colchart (Francis Ford Coppola)

USA 1962, color, 77 min.

The Soviet film Nebo zovyot (1959) was reedited and dubbed into this science-fiction adventure yarn about rival space missions to put a man on Mars. Competing against the Soviet Union, American scientists race to build a spaceship to travel to the Red Planet. Unbeknownst to all, however, is the fact that Mars contains horrors that mankind should not disturb. Produced by Roger Corman and re-directed by Francis Ford Coppola under the name Thomas Colchart. (amctv)